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Philanthropic Freedom: If You Can’t Measure It, You Can’t Improve It

Posted on May 19, 2013 Written by Leave a Comment
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Hudson Institute's Center for Global Prosperity (CGP) has released Philanthropic Freedom: A Pilot Study, the first time ease of giving has been fully measured and compared across countries. The 13-country study fills a major gap in development policy and philanthropic research by surveying barriers and incentives to philanthropy in three main areas: the ease of registering and operating civil society organizations (CSOs); domestic tax policies for individual and corporate deductions, credits, and exemptions; and the ease of sending and receiving cash and in-kind goods across borders. India, South Africa, and Mexico have regulations and tax incentives conducive to philanthropy, yet the laws on the books are met with bureaucratic obstacles. While Brazil and Egypt have similar domestic tax … [Read more...]

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What Makes Fundraising Truly Great?

Posted on April 29, 2013 Written by
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'What differentiates truly great fundraising from the average, good and poor?' and 'What are the factors that allow an organisation to double, treble or even quadruple its income?' These are questions addressed by Professors Adrian Sargeant and Jen Shang in their newly released report, Great Fundraising. … [Read more...]

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Avi Chai Foundation Releases Year 4 Spend-down Report

Posted on January 23, 2013 Written by

The AVI CHAI Foundation has released the next installment in Professor Joel Fleishman’s annual report series on the Foundation’s spend-down. Since 2010, Joel Fleishman, Professor of Law and Public Policy Studies at Duke University, has documented how the spend-down has influenced AVI CHAI’s grantmaking in its three regions of operation: Israel, North America and the former Soviet Union. Fleishman’s report on 2012 activities provides an update on AVI CHAI’s work on building grantee capacities towards long-term sustainability and impact. It also chronicles the related work of identifying funding partners and opportunities for program co-creation and collaboration. In the past years, Joel Fleishman has conducted interviews with staff members and Trustees. More than two years into the … [Read more...]

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Teaching to the Moment: A New Study from Repair the World

Posted on November 20, 2012 Written by
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Repair the World has released a new report, Teaching to the Moment: A Study of Immersive Jewish Service-learning Educators. This study, conducted by Dr. Shelley Billig, Vice President of RMC Research Corporation, provides a comprehensive look at the qualities of effective immersive Jewish service-learning (IJSL) educators and the training they need to continue providing deep and engaging IJSL experiences. Though this study focuses on the IJSL field, given that IJSL is a subset of Jewish experiential education, its findings also have relevance to the broader field of Jewish experiential education. Many of the skills, capacities and knowledge areas that IJSL educators need to be effective are shared with other Jewish experiential educators. The framework that this study offers for testing these … [Read more...]

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New Study Illuminates Hardship Facing Jewish Elderly Across the FSU

Posted on November 15, 2012 Written by
Hesed Center in Melitpol, Ukraine; courtesy Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies

Brandeis University’s Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies has released a new report that spotlights the need that persists today among large numbers of Jewish elderly in the countries of the former Soviet Union (FSU). The study, “Hardship and Needs of Elderly Clients in Russia and Ukraine,” reviews the current economic, health, and social conditions of these impoverished elderly Jews, and it strives to compare their circumstances to their counterparts in western countries such as the US. Twenty years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, most countries in this region are still hard-put to provide an adequate safety net for their aging adults. These are people who worked their whole lives - as university professors, engineers, and health professionals, etc. - only to see their … [Read more...]

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New Study: The Truth About Israel Advocacy

Posted on October 9, 2012 Written by
Israeli flags at Mt. Herzl

Lisa Eisen, the national director of the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation, writing in The Times of Israel: When asked to describe the activities of young Israel advocates, people often conjure up a rather stereotyped image: right wing and religious, protesting on the quad, arguing with speakers and student activists. The fact is, those depictions could not be further from the truth. A new study examining 4,000 young Israel advocates - from teenagers to young adults - paints a very different picture. The first and largest study of its kind, “Next Generation Advocacy” is invaluable in explaining what until now has been mostly guesswork: what compels young people to engage in Israel advocacy? Why do they stay involved? What can we do to ensure that they are effectively trained … [Read more...]

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